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Well, if want to act like the Jaguars being the '10th ranked offense' as being some sort of joke, we shouldn't be too worried about Cincinnati, since they're the 8th ranked offense. They average a whole 3 yards more per game!
I think some of you think Jacksonville was some kind of weak-ass team, and weren't paying attention the last half of the season to the rest of the NFL. They'd won like 7 of 8 down the stretch and put up some healthy numbers doing so.
The two big returns put our defense on a short field twice. We held the Jags about 4 points under their scoring average for the season despite that. And it would've been more significant had we not dropped two INT's that hit our guys right in the hands.
If's and but's, and candy and nuts and all of that.
Bottom line is, that was a pretty good defensive effort against a legitimate offense no matter what you guys want to think.
You know what changes I'd like to see? A legitimate pass rusher in Frank Clark's spot. Clark had a decent game Saturday, but disappears far too often, in my opinion.
but considering we're rocking 5 of our top 12 defensive players being rookies and drug along the corpse of Frank Clark for most of the season, I feel pretty good about the direction of the defense and think Spagnuolo did a pretty impressive job all things considered.
That blitz that led to the INT in the 4th quarter was a pretty great call. And all of the rookies are acquitting themselves well.
Burrow and his cast of weapons are scary, and if anyone's expecting to hold them to 17 points or some such shit are off their rockers unless there's snow.
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